Working For A Dream

School will only get you so far in life.  There are learning moments in life that can only be understood by experiencing them through sacrifice, hard work, failures, and successes. If you want to accomplish anything quickly, it's important to get into rooms with people who know more than you.  It's necessary to drop your ego at the door and put yourself in the mindset of being coachable and willin...

Our educational system is only designed to prep you for one thing in life; programming.  From the moment we enter school, we are programmed to make good grades, go to college, get a good job, get married, work 40 years, retire and live happily ever after. There are some people who don't quite make it that far and break the glass on the conventions of life. Today's guest is one of those people.  Ra...

You can hear the thrumming of the earth beneath your feet.  Passion, purpose, and intention are the fire starters of most dreams made into reality.  It sounds like the beginning of a movie, doesn't it?  For some, like our guest today, it's real life.  Ben Humble, Serial Entrepreneur has had every business imaginable from a janitorial services company where he worked tirelessly to clean up shit to...

We enter this world into families and circumstances where we have experiences that shape our lives.  Nothing is perfect, but the process of it creates a multitude of opportunities and if you're willing to work hard and stay consistent, you'll be destined for success.  Jad Boudiab started his journey at a young age. His mother won a visa lottery in Lebanon when she was living in a mountainside vill...

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Mehdi was born and raised in Morocco. However, he's always been drawn to the United States to further his career because of the countless opportunities it provides. He went to great lengths to make his dream come true. Things didn't appear to be simple for him at first, given his humble beginnings and the fact that English was not his native tongue. He, on the other hand, viewed every problem as a...

John has been through a lot in his life that could possibly make you jump out of your skin. However, he says, "I'm glad I went through the pain and suffering I did back then because it makes my business route a lot simpler."Nothing frightens him any longer, and that's the mentality you'll need if you want to take your business beyond your comfort zone. John Highley is a Marketing Specialist. He is...

"I was one of the top sales reps in the company," Chris recounts, "and I went from making six figures to making nothing." His youngest daughter had barely been 6 days old when he was downsized. He was at a loss for what to do next with his wife and three daughters. Nothing changed, though, until he accepted responsibility for his situation and began taking actions to improve it. Chris Clear, also...

Matty was hustling his travel service on the side before an injury cost him his regular job as a paramedic. He launched his full-time business career from there, and at one point, he declared that he'd never work for anybody else again. Matthew Kondrup, better known as Matty K, is currently the President and CEO of the award-winning Matty K Travel Group . They create destination weddings, family v...

What if you had complete control over your body? It'll be indeed an amazing feeling! One of the goals of biohacking is to achieve this, and there are various methods for doing so. The word "biohacking" refers to a range of activities that revolve around using technology, biology, holistic research, and personal trials to improve your health and life. In today's audio, Brett explains the topic and...

What's preventing you from achieving your maximum potential? Fear of the unknown and failure could be the primary concerns. However, you'll never know what you'll learn or achieve unless you push yourself out of your comfort zone and do something that terrifies you! Justin committed to being the greatest version of himself no matter how many pathways he had to travel or how long it took him to get...

Arne launched four Facebook groups, all of which were doomed to fail before his fifth one took off and swelled to over 80,000 members. "The first four taught me a lot about what not to do," he acknowledges, "and the fifth and beyond helped me grasp what I should truly stick to.". After mastering all of the fundamentals, he's now a pro. While Arne is on the show today, there's no better time than n...

There is no greater happiness or fulfillment than to make a difference in someone's life. Kevin's roofing firm is more often known as "a self-development company" that strives to improve the lives of people who come into contact with it. Like many others, Kevin started his business with a vision and a lot of hard work. He does, however, hold a unique role in his firm, unlike most roofing company p...

What is it like to lose a loved one forever? The pain and sadness will never go away completely, and they may paralyze you emotionally and physically, bringing your life to a standstill. However, life is not going to stop for anything. So, instead of wallowing in misery, you must learn to cope with and overcome the situation. Patrick lost both of his parents in under 60 days. He lost his mom unexp...

What's the best investment that you can ever make? "Nothing is more important than investing in your personal growth," Jose says, and by doing so, he discovered his true calling in life. Jose Bolanos is a coach, speaker, and podcaster. He is Patrick's brother and is here to share his wisdom on the show today. After seeing significant changes in his own life, his purpose is now to help as many peop...

You only get one life - but what if it isn't the one you were meant to live?  Three and a half years ago, Drewbie was working at an insurance agency in Toledo, Ohio, doing the normal Monday through Friday grind. With a lovely family, he was living the life most people would consider ideal. However, he wasn't happy, as he puts it, "I was out of shape, not making enough money and most importantly no...

At 48 years old, Kris Whitehead has been working for himself for 24 years. Having been bit by the entrepreneur bug in his teens, at 22, he was working for Radio Shack and doing well — but then he caught a glimpse of himself 10 years down the line.  "I saw the district managers working six days a week," Kris says. "They were making a couple of hundred thousand a year, which back then was a lot of m...

The more movers and shakers you surround yourself with, the more likely you are to realize that most have one thing in common — at some point, they've lived a f***ed up life. That's according to Daniel Blue.  "Most winners had some kind of tragedy or adversity hit them, usually on more than one occasion," he says. "For me, I'm a product of my mistakes, and I happened to make countless mistakes in...

To say Jose Sanchez has already lived multiple lives in his short time spent on this planet is putting it mildly.  There's the chapter when he moved to Texas from Mexico at age 7, where he later fell in with the wrong crowd and spent most of his adolescence "just trying not to overdose every day." There's the chapter where he, unbeknownst to him, went to "visit" family in Alaska and discovered he'...

When Dominick Nusdeu first discovered Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 1993 — the same year the UFC began — he'd never seen anything like it.    A teenager whose mother wouldn't allow him to play "aggressive" sports like football and hockey, he saw in jiu-jitsu an outlet for physical combat. But he saw something else, too. Even then, he recognized it was a sport about problem-solving — about identifying the...

Before becoming a serial entrepreneur, Billy Batt worked in the oil fields, and before that, he was a teen runaway. Having left home at 13, Billy learned his way around the streets at a young age, sleeping outside in the Canadian winter and eventually joining a gang. He was selling, and doing, his share of drugs and losing friends to crack jail and violence. But after one too many near-death exper...

Growing up, Tony Whatley was told, as many of us are, that time equals money. The first person in his family to go to college, it took him seven years to get his degree because of the number of jobs he was working and the time that went into them. Tony worked full-time in construction and at chemical refineries, went to school at night, and waited tables on the weekends. It was, in short, a grind....

One thing that life in the Special Forces and life as an entrepreneur have in common? Neither one is particularly comfortable — and that's a good thing, according to Jeff Smith, a man who's experienced both.   "If you're not challenging yourself, if you're not doing hard things, if you're not recognizing a level of discipline that makes you internally proud, I think you're not in a great place," J...